For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCHMan has not a greater enemy than himself.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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